Guest post by KW: A disciplined Rule

This is from KW in SF Meeting, quoted from an email he recently sent:

We are a disciplined Rule, more disciplined than the British army, as disciplined as the Trappists, and at a very deep level. To be a Friend is to learn to have a deep sense of others' credibility, a profound deference for their views, -- and for the need to wrestle to agree on stuff. It's hard.

I asked K for permission to post to my blog, and he wrote, "Thank you for your recent letter." He must have overlooked my request in the midst of other business about which I was writing. I will see him at our meeting's annual Memorial Day retreat at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, and will check to make sure he's okay with this.